Fall WalkBike News

posted Oct 31, 2015, 2:33 PM by Nathan Rome

Dear
WalkBike Family and Friends,

Happy
Halloween from all of us at WalkBike Frankfort and the Folkbike
ReCyclery! With the temperature dropping, many of us may be spending less
time walking or biking in the coming months, but that doesn’t mean that the
work of making the Capital City a more accessible place to live is slowing
down. On the contrary!

Survey Update

As most of you are already aware, we solicited feedback via
a community survey, which will be used to update the WalkBike Master plan. The survey is now closed. We had total of 201 respondents, which is
great! Preliminary results will be
presented at the annual membership meeting.

Membership

If you are receiving this email for the first time, it’s
because you expressed an interest in joining WalkBike Frankfort, when you
completed the survey. Welcome! We’re glad to have you and warmly invite you
to get involved.

Speaking of
memberships, the basic WalkBike Membership is free. We also offer a number of supporting
membership levels. The current
supporting memberships expire at the end of 2015. If you are interested in either renewing your
membership or becoming a supporting member for the first time, we welcome your
support!

Annual Membership Meeting

Save the
date! Our annual membership meeting will
take place on Monday, December 7, at 6pm
at the Frankfort Police/Public Safety Building, on Second Street, across
from Pic Pac.

TweedPunk Ride

Calling all
ladies and gents! You are cordially invited to join WalkBike Frankfort
and the Folkbike ReCyclery for the wacky festivities of our 2015 Tweedpunk
Ride. As was the case last year, as an added enticement, this year’s ride
will feature a Steampunk element, hence the ‘TweePunk’ moniker.

Cycling enthusiasts will congregate at half past two on the afternoon of Sunday, November 8, on the
grounds of the Old State Capitol for a leisurely spin around our beauteous
downtown. There will be ample opportunities for socializing, seeing and
being seen.

The ride will be preceded by costume judging and followed by
an awards presentation. Afterwards, all riders are invited to share a spot
of tea or other libation at the Coffeetree Café.

KSU/Downtown Trail

We are excited to report that the City and CSX have signed
an agreement for the land needed to begin work on the KSU/Downtown trail,
priority #2 on the current version of the Master Plan. Our understanding
is that the agreement contains two conditions:
1) the City has to boundary survey of the land and 2) the City has to
complete and environmental survey, which is currently underway. Once both of these items have been completed,
the transfer should take place. With any
luck, we’ll be doing trail work when warmer weather prevails again, this
spring.

Small Batch Cyclery

In case you weren’t aware, Small Batch Cyclery has recently
taken up residence in the circular building right across from the entrance to
Juniper hills (the old Farmers Bank building).
They are just getting settled in, but you’ll want to stop in and check
out their very hip new digs.

US 60 Project

With the repaving of Louisville Rd. drawing to a close
sometime in the next month, we will see sidewalks and bike lanes that extend
from the top of Lafayette Dr. to out past the State Police headquarters. This development is worthy of
celebration. To that end, we plan to
have a little soiree at Small Batch Cyclery.
Stay tuned for details.